Cue the 457s .... Love stories like this,the right lap it up!
Ryan Graham has lost count of the number of tradies he’s hired who have downed their tools and walked off the job — within minutes.
Young Aussies are turning their backs on jobs with salaries of up to $17,000 a week because they’re too lazy to put in the hard yards.That’s according to Sydney man Ryan Graham, who has owned a commercial flooring company for around 10 years.He said young Australians were abandoning lucrative trades altogether, while the few who did apply for roles regularly quit soon after starting.The problem has become so widespread the 42-year-old has sponsored foreigners to fill roles in the past.But he said a government clampdown on the sponsorship of foreigners for his trade had left him in the lurch.“Everyone you see on a job site is Brazilian or English or Irish or Argentinian — they just love working,” he said.“People complain that foreign workers are taking Australian jobs … but we’ve had 15 guys over the last two years that haven’t lasted more than a week. I interviewed one guy for an hour who was there for 10 minutes before he walked off the job.“Australians don’t want the job, they would rather do something easy.”He said it actually cost Australian businesses more to hire foreign workers, but that it was usually worth the investment.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/aussies-turning-their-backs-on-17000aweek-tradie-jobs-boss-claims/news-story/65450a3ad8e2df43a924c30098d16ff1
